Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Engineers, other construction spending that can be stretched out or deferred. In the U.S. space program, the effort to put a man on the moon will not be affected, but post-Apollo projects are likely to be slowed down. Few potential economies have been overlooked: the President expects to save $8,000,000 a year with a regulation that Government autos be driven for seven years, or 72,000 miles, instead of six years...
...religion of nationalism was to demand its own crusades. Clergy blessed the guns on both sides as World War I broke out and quickly degenerated into frothing fanaticism. "Kill Germans!" cried the Bishop of London. "To kill them not for the sake of killing, but to save the world, to kill the good as well as the bad, to kill the young men as well as the old ... I look upon it as a war for purity." In the U.S. writes Yale Historian Roland H. Bainton, "Jesus was dressed in khaki and portrayed sighting down a gun barrel...
...some classic vocal jousts. Castrato Domenico Caffarelli, for instance, liked to fluster the sopranos during duets by spiraling off on melodic tangents that had no resemblance to the score; Soprano Angelica Catalan!, while singing in England, tried to hold her own by tossing in elaborate variations of God Save the King in every opera she sang...
...university from this year's $240 million to $192 million-a 20% slash and nearly a third less than what University President Clark Kerr and the regents had sought. To make up the difference, Smith proposed to take $22 million from a special regents' reserve fund and save $5,000,000 more by delaying Berkeley's scheduled shift to a quarter system this summer. Smith argued that the proposed tuition charge would bring in an additional $30 million, $10 million of which could be used to provide scholarships for needy students...
...Sellers get into this mess? He obviously counted on such proven professionals as Scriptwriter Neil Simon (The Odd Couple) and Director Vittorio De Sica (Marriage-Italian Style) to work a miracle and save the show. Was he ever wrong...